Compressing thin spheres in the complement of a link
| dc.creator | Tomova, Maggy | |
| dc.date | 2004-04-15 | |
| dc.date | 2004-10-03 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T05:07:28Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T05:07:28Z | |
| dc.description | Let L be a link in the 3-sphere that is in thin position but not in bridge position and let P be a thin level sphere. We generalize a result of Wu by giving a bound on the number of disjoint irreducible compressing disks that P can have, including identifying thin spheres with unique compressing disks. We also give conditions under which P must be incompressible on a particular side or be weakly incompressible. If P is strongly compressible we describe how a pair of compressing disks must lie relative to the link. | |
| dc.description | New results have been added including a bound on the number of disjoint irreducible compressing disks a thin sphere can have. 15 pages, 9 figures | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0404282 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0404282 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/70870 | |
| dc.subject | Geometric Topology | |
| dc.subject | 57M25 | |
| dc.title | Compressing thin spheres in the complement of a link | |
| dc.type | text |